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During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, a very amused Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (R-IL) was asked by host Alex Witt to describe what went down late Friday night when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) got into an argument over the Florida lawmaker's "present" vote that forced a fifteenth roll call vote after midnight.

When you think of flowers being pollinated, you likely picture a bee or butterfly doing the work. But many different insects also visit flowers and help plants reproduce, including flies, wasps, beetles, and even certain mosquitoes. Some birds and bats also benefit flowering vegetation, acting as the liaison for sexual reproduction, a strange but widespread evolutionary practice.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Alex Witt, Stephanie Grisham, the former White House press secretary and top aide to Melania Trump, was asked how things changed between the former first lady and her husband in the waning days of his presidency.

According to MSNBC contributor Kurt Bardella, newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is going to have some explaining to do when he has to reveal to his caucus what he promised the far-right extremists in the House in his unrelenting campaign to be handed the gavel.

According to CNN's Kate Sullivan, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) lashed out at House colleague Rep Mike Rogers (R-AL) for lunging at Florida Republican Matt Gaetz on the House floor late Friday night after Gaetz pulled the rug out from under Kevin McCarthy's bid to become speaker on the 14th ballot.

In a piece for the Arizona Republic, longtime columnist E.J. Montini questioned the sanity of failed GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake for refusing to admit that she was defeated in her first run for political office and suggested she is living in a "personal cloud cuckoo land."

Less than 12 hours after Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy overcame 15 votes worth of opposition from far-right members of his caucus to become House speaker, former Republican National Committee head Michael Steele claimed opposition leader Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) did irreparable damage to the GOP.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show" early Saturday morning, former federal prosecutor Cynthia Alksne said special counsel Jack Smith has his work cut out for him when it comes to a Donald Trump criminal indictment over the Jan. 6 riot.

With Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) assuming the House speakership after 15 grueling roll-call vote counts due to a faction in his own caucus who bitterly opposed him, one GOP adviser claimed that anti-McCarthy GOPers are likely going to pay for putting up a protracted fight.

Hours after Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy finally was voted in as speaker of the House, a panel on MSNBC was already debating how long he would be able to hold onto the gavel after a short "honeymoon."

LIMA (Reuters) - Dozens of protesters attempted to take over an airport near Peru's border with Bolivia Friday as part of anti-government protests, prompting police to use tear gas to disperse them.

It is unusual for all 16 judges of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to convene and hear a case. This month, they will do so to consider a lawsuit involving a foul-mouthed Latina firebrand known as La Gordiloca, an unlikely citizen journalist who has upended politics as usual in her border town of Laredo.

CAL State San Bernadino design major Nohemi Gonzalez saved enough money to live her dream of studying in Paris for a semester.

After nearly a week of chaotic voting on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy of California was elected Speaker of the House of the 118th Congress just after midnight early Saturday morning after finally securing enough votes in the 15th ballot.

On Friday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," criminal defense attorney Mark O'Mara argued that new information released about Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the gruesome University of Idaho stabbings, provides strong evidence that he is trying to conceal his own guilt.

On Friday, MSNBC reported that a market for child exploitation content is thriving in the darker corners of Twitter — despite tech billionaire Elon Musk's promises to improve safety on the social network.

On Friday, CNN reported that former President Donald Trump suffered another legal blow in court as a New York judge rejected his move to toss the lawsuit against his family by state Attorney General Letitia James.

Former President Donald Trump spent his early Friday evening unleashing a caps-heavy rant demanding an end to mail-in ballots in the United States.

On Friday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," Michael Fanone, the former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who fought off insurrectionists at the January 6 assault and suffered a heart attack the day after, tore into Republicans who declined to show up to a ceremony remembering the event.

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) finally expects to be elected as Speaker of the House on Friday evening -- but only after failing to win the vote over 13 tries spread across four different days.

On Friday, CNN's Kaitlan Collins reported that GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tried to put a positive spin on the days of chaos on the House floor in conversation with reporters that afternoon.

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden marked the second anniversary of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Friday by awarding the "Presidential Citizens Medal" to 14 people, some of them posthumously, who battled to defend America's democracy after the 2020 election.

In a White House ceremony, Biden, a Democrat, described the violence that injured 140 police as "fueled by lies."

As he spoke, Republicans, many of them loyal to former President Donald Trump who pushed the false election claims... Читать дальше...

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed a group of hard-line conservative loyalists Friday into leadership positions at the New College of Florida, a move that comes as the Republican governor plots a remake of the state’s higher education system. Several of the appointees are vocal opponents of gender- and race-related education issues that have fueled the right’s culture wars in schools. They were picked as DeSantis, who is eyeing a potential 2024 White House run, vows to fight “philosophical lunacy” in the schools. Читать дальше...

A panel of federal judges ruled that South Carolina GOP lawmakers drew district lines to remove Black voters during midterm elections in November, reports U.S. News & World Report.

The Republican Party in New York is staring reality in the face as they are already looking for replacements for Representative-elect George Santos, who has not even been sworn in yet as a Congressman.